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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 05:16 PM Jan 2017

Disgraced Duggar minister and accused molester cited as 'strong influence' over Trump's...

Disgraced Duggar minister and accused molester cited as ‘strong influence’ over Trump’s agriculture pick

TRAVIS GETTYS
27 JAN 2017 AT 14:23 ET

President Donald Trump’s pick for agriculture secretary, former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, claims the same disgraced spiritual advisor as the Duggar family.

Perdue credits Bill Gothard, who resigned nearly two years ago from the ministry he founded over sexual harassment allegations, as the strongest influence in his life aside from the Bible, according to the Homeschoolers Anonymous blog.

“Nothing besides Scripture itself played a more important role in the daily guiding and leading of our family than Bill Gothard and the Institute in Basic Life Principles,” Perdue wrote in a blurb for Gothard’s book, “The Amazing Way.”

“We immersed ourselves in the clear but profound and practical wisdom delivered by God through Bill,” Perdue wrote. “I found every seminar and every piece of literature was produced impeccably in honor of the One whose message it delivered.”

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Disgraced Duggar minister and accused molester cited as 'strong influence' over Trump's... (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2017 OP
Sexual predators stick together. nt JTFrog Jan 2017 #1
So he's appointing lots of "Christian" perverts. God help us. OregonBlue Jan 2017 #2
These people are absolutely dispicable and should not be dictating policy. Initech Jan 2017 #3
Christofascism. Rex Jan 2017 #4

Initech

(100,081 posts)
3. These people are absolutely dispicable and should not be dictating policy.
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 05:47 PM
Jan 2017

And they can stop calling themselves religious if they stump for Trump.

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